Question 2 (Marks: 20) Consider the following case study and then answer the question that follows. Case Study Ford's it architecture discipline sprouted to focus on optimizing application solutions and technology management. The scope later increased to include information architecture, and then, in 2012, the scope again increased to include business architecture, providing architects the business acumen to talk to their colleagues about business processes. Ford's EA team saw huge potential in the business architecture discipline and thought this would be a game changer for IT to help ford steer investments. They saw many pockets of success but nothing systemic to make the kind of impact they wanted across the enterprise. Business architecture activities put EA in the position to address the lack of cross-functional integration and to help optimize the project portfolio aimed at addressing the functional and cross-functional needs of the enterprise. EA developed enterprise blueprints aligned to corporate strategies and goals that included the representations of their business capabilities, value streams, and health assessments. The blueprints not only articulated a future-state view of the enterprise but also helped identify opportunities for IT investments. To balance IT investment across LLCs and business functions to ensure that Ford invested in the right things at the right time and demonstrated the value of its investments, EA then rewrote Ford's IT demand management process. This process incorporated the use of their enterprise blueprints and shifted IT investment from a business function view to an enterprise view. The process identified the expected value of the proposed investments and developed an evaluation method to prioritize the investments. EA set targets for the number of IT investments that needed to be aligned to blueprints and scored investments to identify those that provided a strategic advantage for the enterprise. They ensured that business value was clear and easy to demonstrate. They elevated investments for approval with top executives if they scored high through a newly launched demand management governance forum. Also, their Clo was successful in ensuring that business functions could no longer fund IT work through a back door. Everything had to go through the IT demand Evaluate Ford's EA initiative. Include the following themes in your analysis: (20) A discussion of enterprise architecture in your own words; An overview and application of EA frameworks; The advantages of integrated enterprise systems. Instructions: - A word limit of 1800 words applies. Markers will disregard any text beyond this limit. Please indicate the word count at the end of your answer; Structure your discussion using the above themes; You will need to conduct research beyond the case study and prescribed material; Theory must be paraphrased in your own words and referenced; D. The independent Institute of Iducation (Dyy) ha 2022 Page 6 of 12 21: 22, 23 2025 - More marks will be awarded for application of concepts to the case study than for the theory; - Refer to the rubric for mark allocations